Why Jews are Deserting Obama and the Democrats By Ed Lasky

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American Thinker:


Why Jews are Deserting Obama and the Democrats
By Ed Lasky


One little-noticed trend that speaks volumes: the decline in Democratic Party identification and support for Barack Obama from American Jews, once among their most reliable and enthusiastic backers.

There has been a steady drip-drip-drip of Jews leaving the Democratic Party, most recently noted by the Pew Research Center. This has caused consternation among the usual suspects -- among them, the National Jewish Democratic Council and New York Times columnist and uber-liberal Charles Blow, who commented just a few days ago:

In a Pew Research Center report issued on Thursday and entitled "Growing Number of Americans Say Obama Is a Muslim" (tragic in its own right), there was another bit of bad news for Obama: the number of Jews who identify as Republican or as independents who lean Republican has increased by more than half since the year he was elected. At 33 percent it now stands at the highest level since the data have been kept. In 2008, the ratio of Democratic Jews to Republican Jews was far more than three to one. Now it's less than two to one.

[AceRimmer]

I've never understood the allegiance Jews give the RATS, despite being treated as just another member of the plantation, like blacks or Hispanics. Given the treatment Bibi has received from Obambi, who is so busy sucking up to Muslims that he can't be bothered to give him the time of day, this would drive me up the wall if I wasn't already pro-Israel.

 

It's understandable that it would take a socialistic, pro-Muslim, tone-deaf, and arrogant liberal to finally shine the light on liberal Jews that the RATS only want their votes, not their voices to be heard from the plantation.

[Argyle58]

I've never understood the allegiance Jews give the RATS, despite being treated as just another member of the plantation, like blacks or Hispanics. Given the treatment Bibi has received from Obambi, who is so busy sucking up to Muslims that he can't be bothered to give him the time of day, this would drive me up the wall if I wasn't already pro-Israel.

 

It's understandable that it would take a socialistic, pro-Muslim, tone-deaf, and arrogant liberal to finally shine the light on liberal Jews that the RATS only want their votes, not their voices to be heard from the plantation.

 

The support that American Jews have given the Democrat party goes back to FDR and WWII. Understandably, Jews were grateful for America's involvement in the war and the ultimate defeat of Nazi Germany.

 

The love affair was strengthened when, during the Jewish uprisings in Palistine during the mid 1940's, the U.S. Government under Harry Truman and a Democrat controlled Congress sided with the Jews against Great Britain (the Palestinian Colonial ruler at that time), imposing economic sanctions against the British government until they acquiesced and ceded Palistine to the U.N., allowing the Jewish State to be created.

 

Since the Carter years, however, Israel, and Jews in general, have been getting a raw deal from the Dims. Glad to see they are finally getting wise to the fact that deeds mean more than rhetoric.

[AceRimmer]

I remember the last year of King Bubba's administration where he was desperately seeking some deal, any kind of deal, between Israel and Palestine that would prevent his legacy being Impeachment over Monica. He failed, just like Obambi will...